I love my whistle but have decided to try to learn a concert flute. I really need a chart that shows each note and coresponding fingering but not one note at a time. I need them all on the page so I can work from it. I tried a flute the other night and joy oh joy I got the scales and even a simple tune by ear. So muggins here bid on one from e-bay and won it. I won’t be able to play it a lot as disability means that holding it for too long hurts so my whistle will be my first instrument. I found a site but it does individual notes. I need a nice clear chart. ![]()
Fingering chart available here:
Hi Selkie,
If it’s a Boehm system flute which I assume it is as you called it a concert flute, try this link.
http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/flute/fl_fing.html
Cheers, Mac
Actually “concert flute” is a term usually applied to simple-system wooden flutes, at least among traditional musicians in Ireland and the UK. But anyway, we’ve got it covered either way ![]()
Hi Brad,
I must admit I’ve never heard a simple system flute referred to as a “Concert Flute”, maybe it’s a regional thing or as you say, perhaps Players refer to them (simple system,wooden flutes) as concert flutes while the general public refer to Bohem Flutes as Concert flutes. Still between us we have it covered, I hope. ![]()
Cheers, Mac
I guess strictly speaking a “concert flute” is one pitched in C (which we Irish players confusingly call a D flute), and can include either simple-system or Boehm-system.
A Google search on “concert flute” will show references to both (it even pulls up references to a Native American concert flute!), but you’ll definitely see lots of references to it from Comhaltas and other Irish sources clearly referring to simple system flutes.
The McGee flute fingering is helpful, in terms of which holes to cover while playing a key, but it doesn’t actually tell you which key goes with which note. I found his description of the keys themselves a little confusing.
I’ve had my 8-key Grinter for 9 days now (yay!) and finally figured out the C# and Bb keys by asking someone at a session last night. The two Fs, the G# and the low C# and C I figured out pretty quickly, but then the others were kind of a mystery. I also wonder if they might look (or be arranged differently) if pin-mounted vs. block-mounted or if based on a different model of flute. (Mine is modeled on the Rudell & Rose, which is probably the most common – but as I recall I saw a picture of a German flute online somewhere yesterday that looked like it was from Mars).
How many keys do you have?
The good news is if you don’t have the keys figured out yet, the cross-fingerings still work.
I’ve got 11 keys, still can’t quite figure them all out.
Hi Brad,
Looks like I need to get out more, ![]()
FSnockhart, would this be the keyed flute you refer to,
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=13223
I’ve never seen an 8 key in the flesh, so to speak, I couldn’t figure out how they would work. I only noticed when I saw pics on Terry McGee’s site and saw that where the other keys opened the tone holes when pressed, the bottom C keys closed the holes. I got my wife to close the holes on my keyless, as I played down the scale, then it made sense. When you refer to the C# key (the one nearest the embouchure) I think that would be Cn.
Cheers, Mac
The best fingering chart I have found that covers all the bases for keyed and unkeyed conical flutes on Larry Krantz’s web site.
Check out: <www.larrykrantz.com/6key.htm>
And by far the best site I have found for Boehm fingerings is also on Krantz’s website.
Check out : <www.larrykrantz.com/fingchrt.htm>
In fact, Larry’s website is a gold mine of information for all flute players …the most extensive and best organized on the internet I fell sure. The all-embracing web site address is (unsurprisingely!_ —<www.larrykrantz.com>